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» FEATURED: The Five Most Important Differences BetweenThe Decision Model and Business Rules Approaches (They are not by accident!)

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The Five Most Important Differences BetweenThe Decision Model and Business Rules Approaches (They are not by accident!)

While many organizations have already adopted The Decision Model, others are actively exploring how it may improve or totally replace their current business rules approaches. The latter are asking the critical question: How is The Decision Model different from what we are doing and why are these differences important?

» FEATURED: Facilitating virtual meetings

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I learned this in a virtual meeting where about 10 stakeholders were invited to give input to a mock-up created by our project. They were all subject matter experts within the area, and had earlier provided some input on an individual basis. I walked through the whole thing, and what happened? There were no comments or suggestions. I couldn't ...

» FEATURED: Business Processes: Better with Business Rules

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Business Processes: Better with Business Rules

If you’re looking to manage business activities on a business-process basis, stability is key. But business rules aren’t stable. In fact, many change quite rapidly. What should you do? Separate the business rules from the business process model, so the business process model can do its job.

» FEATURED: How to Mentor an Aspiring Business Analyst

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How to Mentor an Aspiring Business Analyst

You walk into your local IIBA meeting and introduce yourself to a new attendee. They ask you what seems to be one of the toughest questions in the world: “How do I become a business analyst?” Hmm… How do you become a business analyst?

» FEATURED: The 3 types of hybrid projects, and how they affect the business analyst’s work

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The 3 types of hybrid projects, and how they affect the business analyst’s work

I’ve written in the past about why hybrid approaches that incorporate traditional and agile methods of software development are been applied by organizations seeking to improve the results of their software projects. Here I’ll describe the 3 types of hybrid projects I have identified while working with different organizations in consulting assignme...

» FEATURED: Business Analyst Checkpoints: Checkpoint Alpha

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Business Analyst Checkpoints: Checkpoint Alpha

There are three basic checkpoints the business analyst can facilitate to help ensure that he or she is on the right track. Two are informal, merely a get-together with other parties to review the situation and not fraught with the imprimatur of approval. The other is a more formal presentation. I’ll address each of the three checkpoints in this ser...

» FEATURED: Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis

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Using the Business Architecture in Business Analysis

“…The Analyst will [...] facilitate the identification, design and implementation of business and systems solutions in a rapidly growing and evolving business…” What strategic initiatives might a business analyst as described above discover, and how will they deliver the “business and systems solutions” in today’s 21st Century...

» 360-Degree Dinner

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December ought to be a month of celebrations, but for managers it often isn’t. In many companies this is the time for the yearly performance appraisals. When top management is not trusting employees, and employees are not trusting top management, the middle manager is usually caught between a rock and a hard place. But they don’t have to be.

» FEATURED: 21st Century BA as Creative Leader: What’s All the Fuss About?

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21st Century BA as Creative Leader: What’s All the Fuss About?

Leadership is like genius, it is one of those concepts that is recognizable when you observe it in action, but is otherwise somewhat difficult to define. And creative leadership is even harder to define because we haven’t been focusing on it in the context of business, unless we are talking about new product development. But creativity and innovati...

» FEATURED: Business Analysts: Choosing Sides

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... it became clear to me that it was time to revisit the core role a business analyst fulfills in an organization. In my experience thus far, well over 75% of the business analysts I know report through the IT side of their organization. Of the 25% that report through the business side, most have a primary responsibility that is outside of the typ...

» FEATURED: What’s Really Needed to Align Business and IT Part 2: Strategy for a Business Solution

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What’s Really Needed to Align Business and IT Part 2: Strategy for a Business Solution

Does your requirements approach allow you to reliably identify blind alleys and showstoppers before your company invests large sums in modeling and software development? What’s missing? Most organizations do follow some project management approach. Do you find yours really helps in answering big-picture business questions?

» The Process of Determining Business Requirements

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The Process of Determining Business Requirements

Taking time to determine business requirements before launching into a new IT or process-based project is a critical component of good planning and protecting company assets. Clearly defining the current process, the problems that need to be focused on, and working with the people in the organization before beginning your project will allow for a m...

» FEATURED: The Virtual BA (Business Analyst)

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As I've had the honor and privilege of mentoring and coaching business analysts (BA’s) one of the areas that has been a challenge to some is moving from facilitating and eliciting face to face meetings to facilitating and eliciting virtual meetings. More and more BA’s are working remotely, work for companies who have global businesses as well as co...

» FEATURED: Case Study: Using the Decision Model to Decompose Underwriting Calculations

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Case Study: Using the Decision Model to Decompose Underwriting Calculations

The project involved updating a quote process and the technologies underpinning that process, this included dealing with an underwriting calculation, which was embedded partly in the legacy systems and, partly, in heavily manual processes. The project team could not determine how to unpick this calculation and provide a detailed specification to a ...

» FEATURED: Which Should Come First, Requirements Management Tools or Processes? Hint: It’s Not What You Expect!

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Which Should Come First, Requirements Management Tools or Processes? Hint: It’s Not What You Expect!

I was asked my opinion about whether I’d want project managers to focus on processes first or tools first. Without hesitation, my response was “I don’t really care whether project managers focus on process or tools first,as long as they don’t get in the way of our doing good business analysis!”

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